I'm responsible for organising the online lecture syllabus for the Pictish Arts Society, a not-for-profit which aims to advance the education of the public in all aspects of the early history of Scotland and particularly concerning the art, culture and history of the Picts. Lectures are delivered via Zoom monthly between October and April each year. If you would like to present a lecture please get in touch!

I took a part-time taught MA by distance learning to gain the methodological and theoretical grounding for a PhD. My 12,000-word dissertation was titled ‘Reconstructing Ros, materialising Moreb: The case for two lost early medieval kingdoms in the Moray Firthlands, north-east Scotland, 700–1000 AD.’ I was awarded an MA History with Distinction in November 2024.

As a freelance B2B tech content writer, I specialised in writing blogs, ebooks, white papers, case studies, web copy, newsletters, magazines, and other types of longer-form content. I have extensive experience of writing for major B2B tech brands including AWS, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Nokia, Oracle, Salesforce, Slack and Xerox.

I was a co-founder of TECgirls, a volunteer organisation created to inspire primary-age girls in Cornwall (and beyond) to engage in activities relating to technology, engineering and digital creativity. As Editor, I was responsible for the content published on the TECgirls blog and in Sandbox Magazine, our quarterly digital and print magazine for 8-12 year old girls.

The blog I'd wanted to write ever since I arrived in Cornwall in 2007. There are loads of people here working on really interesting tech/science/engineering/innovation projects that often go under-reported. My aim with Lode Magazine was to bring these stories together into one place for people to read and enjoy. Sadly, as a side-project it soon got overtaken by the demands of paying client work!

I founded Radix in 2007 to provide professional, high-quality copywriting and content writing services to agencies and brands in the B2B tech sector. I grew the agency to a team of 17 people with continuous, year-on-year revenue growth. By 2020, the team were producing work for over 100 tech brands large and small, and annual revenue was approaching £1m.In 2018 I sold the business to the two other directors in a successful management buyout. I left in March 2020 having overseen the transition to a new management team and operating model.

Working with content marketers, both agency-side and in-house, to develop programmes of content that guide customers and prospects through the buying cycle.Collaborating with writers, researchers, designers, videographers, data analysts and translation/localisation agencies to create intelligent marketing content that sparks conversations and incites action.Writing and editing marketing content across a range of formats including ebooks, white papers, video scripts, infographics, case studies, blog posts, brochures and newsletters.Co-presenting a monthly podcast - Good Copy Bad Copy - looking at the role of copy in B2B marketing.Strategic and day-to-day management of a successful, fast-growing copywriting agency.

I was on the organising committee of Cornwall Twestival Global 2010, one of a series of 350+ fundraising events that took place in cities worldwide on Thursday 25th March 2010.Twestival (Twitter + festival) is a way of bringing together Twitter users and other social media fans in the 'real world' to have fun and raise money for a deserving cause: on this occasion Concern Worldwide (http://www.concern.net/en).My role was to work with the lead organiser, other committee members and sponsors to create content for promoting the event online. I managed the event blog, Twitter profile and Facebook event page in order to market the event across social media platforms.Our aim was to raise £4,000 on the 25th March for Concern Worldwide by selling tickets, attracting sponsors and raising funds through a silent auction. We smashed this target, raising £5,200 in total, which will contribute significantly to building a school in a part of the world where children do not currently have a school to go to. For more information see http://cornwall.twestival.com.

I was brought in to establish Prompt's copywriting division, both to complement the company's existing PR services and to offer a broad portfolio of additional copywriting services to Prompt clients.While at Prompt I also established the company's social media division, which won the 2007 B2B Marketing Best New Product/Service Award for the Prompt Blog Monitor; a service that monitored for client coverage on blogs and other social media platforms.

Working as a freelance business copywriter for numerous clients in the IT industry.

Responsible for defining and overseeing the execution of Public Relations campaigns for Oracle's applications software across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. I was also responsible for defining and overseeing the execution of public relations campaigns and activities relating to Oracle's many business partners in the region.

Working as a freelance copywriter producing written PR and marketing collateral for a variety of technology clients. Also responsible for defining and executing UK PR activities for Chordiant Software, a vendor of customer relationship management software.

Account manager on the Oracle Applications EMEA account. Responsible for assisting the company's in-house EMEA PR team with defining PR strategy for the region as it related to the company's range of enterprise software applications. Also responsible for media relations with pan-European media outlets such as the Wall Street Journal Europe, the Financial Times, Reuters, Bloomberg, etc.

Client management and execution of media relations campaigns and events for a wide variety of technology clients including IBM, Sybase, Iomega and BMC Software.